Porras asked Paxton for immediate assistance with investigations into recent criminal reports filed with Guatemala's Public Ministry alleging that unaccompanied minor children and adolescents being trafficked into the U.S. from Guatemala have allegedly suffered sexual and physical abuse at facilities operated by U.S. tax payer funded NGOs.
"Due to the situation that is happening in Texas, regarding different forms of abuses of some Guatemalan children and adolescents, when the institution received that criminal complaint, the institution has started investigations, so it is necessary to work on this matter in an integral way." He added "That is why, I have been authorized to ask for the collaboration of prosecutor Paxton so we can work together and protect Guatemalan children, and have sent a letter in that matter." Texas Attorney General Paxton could not be reached immediately for comment.
"Disturbingly, there have been reports and documented situations of sexual abuse in these shelters, which is a huge violation of the rights and dignity of these children." "The State of Texas bears much of the responsibility for these lost children, who have been transferred to the border and processed migratory in Texas apparently fully aware of this situation," the translated letter from Spanish to English states.
At the time she was detailed with HHS at an Emergency Intake Site in Pomona, California, and told the committee "I thought I was going to help place children in loving homes." "Instead, I discovered that children are being trafficked through a sophisticated network that begins with recruiting in their home country, smuggled to the U.S. border, and ends when delivers a child to a sponsor - some sponsors are criminals and traffickers and members of Transnational Criminal Organizations," she said.
On one particular visit to Guatemala in 2018, with Chris Farrell from Judicial Watch, an investigative nonprofit in Washington D.C., we were briefed on the rescue of seven unaccompanied children under the age of 10 that were to be trafficked into the U.S. for nefarious purposes.
"Our nation's children are the main priority and many of these children are living in poverty and from regions where they have no resources to protect themselves from these predators," Porras told me during an interview in Guatemala City.
The criminal complaints addressed in the letter allege that the "Non-governmental organizations operating in Guatemala and the State of Texas that may be involved in child trafficking operations are" Save the Children," "Changing the Way We Care," the World Childhood Foundation, Arise, and La Unión del Pueblo Entero is concerning.
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